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Author Topic: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit, 7bit, binary, base64 or quoted-printable  (Read 60457 times)

lukewd

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit, 7bit, binary, base64 or quoted-printable
« on: February 16, 2012, 10:26:00 AM »
Hi everyone, I just wanted run something passed you all to get feedback on your experiences...

I would like to know your experiences with using the different Content-Transfer-Encoding types. The options being: 8bit, 7bit, binary, base64 or quoted-printable.

Essentially my application has the option to generate in any of these formats. For a technical reason relating to something else, it would be most convenient for us to send emails in 8bit format. But I understand 8bit emails can only be received by servers which explicitly support it.  All the other encoding types "down-convert" to 7bit, which is more compatible.

Has anyone used 8bit exclusively, and have you had any problems doing so? Or do nearly 99% of email servers support it in this day and age?
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Re: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit, 7bit, binary, base64 or quoted-printable
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2012, 09:15:46 AM »
HI,
  we are using 8-bit encoding tech only.Still now we did not face any problem.And we are using base64 or quoted-printable also.We are not facing any problem friend.
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